Revolutionary War

Loyalists were colonists who

• fought against British policies

• opposed efforts to fight Britain

• fought at Lexington

• organized the Committees of Correspondence

In 1775, General Gage ordered British troops to seize the Patriot’s war supplies at

• Concord

• Philadelphia

• Washington

• Boston

The first shots of the Revolutionary War (the “shot heard ‘round the world’”) were fired at

• New York

• Lexington

• Philadelphia

• Washington

One important accomplishment of the Second Continental Congress was the setting up of the

• Continental Army

• Minutemen

• Daughters of Liberty

• Green Mountain Boys

In an effort to prevent war, the Second Continental Congress sent the king

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Olive Branch Petition

• Common Sense

• the Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson wrote

• . the Bill of Rights

• the Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

Who was the author of Common Sense

• Phyllis Wheatly

• Benedict Arnold

• Thomas Paine

• Richard Henry Lee

Because most of Washington’s soldiers enlisted for short terms, they were usually

• fresh and ready to fight

• inexperienced and untrained

• uninterested in personal gain

• unwilling to fight

After 1777 much needed funds were donated to the Patriot army by

• the French and Spanish governments

• German princes

• the Polish king

• ex-Loyalists who had given up on the British cause

Who was the commander of the Continental Army?

• Joseph Brant

• James Forten

• George Washington

• John Paul Jones